Dave Terry's CT3M
Carvin BBS ID: dto
WWW: http://www.daveterry.com

This is a great looking carved top model.  The CT3M has a mahogany body and neck, without the flamed or quilted top found on a CT6M, and Dave ordered his with a clear finish, but with sunsetburst edges, which allows the mahogany to show through, but adds a little color.  A great finish!  Other features include stainless steel frets on an ebony fingerboard with no inlays, black chrome hardware, and C22B and C22N pickups.  Dave also has a DC727C and DC127M - check 'em out!

This is a very nice CT3C, ordered in early 2005.  It's finished in Ruby Red Stain on mahogany with birdseye maple fingerboard and headstock on a maple neck.  It has no inlays, chrome hardware, a Floyd Rose tremolo and zebra-coil pickups.  Baimun says:

"When choosing the options for my Carvin, I picked ruby red stain over mahogany thinking it would come out a dark burgundy kind of color. Because Honduras Mahogany has such an orangy color, it actually combined with the ruby red stain to make a brighter almost chiante' wine color... maybe a sunset. I was surprised, but the color is very unique and has grown on me.

Being a fan of oiled maple necks (like on Charvels and the EVH models) I picked the options that would mate a maple neck and fingerboard to the mahogany body. The tiny heel is akin to an early PRS and is incredibly comfortable.

The neck carve itself is an interesting hybrid. It's thick and rounded like a Fender neck, but with a flatter radius (14" I believe). In this application, I'm glad the neck isn't thinner. I had 6100 jumbo frets fitted, and they're all polished and detailed around the fingerboard edges very well. There were some small black streaks here and there, but it appears it was probably some tremolo oil that was probably on the hands of the factory person that setup the guitar. It wiped off fairly easily."

"The headstock is tinted slightly different from the rest of the neck, but I attribute that to the smooth finish on it, while the neck and fingerboard have the tung oil. The 24k Gold logo is a classy touch. There is no need for string retainers because the strings feed directly off the nut to the tuners, and they are set up very close to the face of the headstock. Most of the hardware is hidden on the back where the Sperzel has the thumb screws to lock down the strings.

I'm not a heavy tremolo user, so went without the Floyd locking nut simply so I can tune quickly but still can fine tune the strings on the other end. All the strings are cut to length so there's very little slack to impede tuning."